How do I Restore Nautilus as Default Browser After Uninstalling KDE?

[Penguin Guy]

After installing, then removing KDE the directories in the 'Places' menu always try to open in Dolphin or whichever browser you used in KDE. I believe that Nautilus is still the default browser and this is only a problem with the places menu. The psychocat tutorial does not fix this problem.

I have since switched distro's so this is no longer an issue for me, however I believe narnie is also looking for a solution to this problem.

Thanks!

[DeMus]

So I tried KDE out for a while; didn't like it; removed it. But now I am left with Dolphin as my default browser - how can I switch back to nautilus? I've looked at options and searched through google and so far have found no way to change the default file browser - but surely this is a common and basic task? Do I really have to edit a text file (or worse reinstall) to switch file browsers?

If reinstalling is the only way to restore it then a command would be nice .

Thanks!

Open meny System - Preferences - Preferred apllications
On the 1st tab it says which browser is your favorite: choose Nautilus there.

[Penguin Guy]

Open meny System - Preferences - Preferred apllications
On the 1st tab it says which browser is your favorite: choose Nautilus there.

I believe that means web browser?

Check out this page, near the bottom is a script you can download to restore nautilus as the default.

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonautilusplease

That doesn't work - I've updated the first page with more info.

[kanikilu]

Check out this page, near the bottom is a script you can download to restore nautilus as the default.

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonautilusplease

[kanikilu]

The psychocat guide does not work - it is designed to restore from a backup file which is created by the other psychocat browser-switchers.

Oops, sorry, missed the note at the end of that page.

I've attached the .desktop files mentioned in the script in a .zip file. You could just copy them to /usr/share/applications manually to see if that works (making backups before replacing any files, of course).

// Edit - I notice there's one other nautilus-related file that isn't listed in that script, nautilus-browser.desktop. If you need that, the contents of it on my machine are:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=File Browser
Comment=Browse the file system with the file manager
TryExec=nautilus
Exec=nautilus --no-desktop --browser %U
Icon=system-file-manager
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
Categories=GNOME;GTK;System;Utility;Core;
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=nautilus
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=2.26.2
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=nautilus

[Penguin Guy]

Thanks, I'll try it and post back the results.
- Nope; it doesn't make a difference.

[Penguin Guy]

What I'm looking for is the file that says "Nautilus is the default file browser." rather than "Nautilus should do this and that.". But thanks for the help anyway.

[narnie]

Bump

[loell]

with gconf.

gconf-tool --set "/desktop/gnome/applications/component_viewer/exec" --type string "nautilus %s"

[narnie]

Thanks so much for recommending this, but I checked out the value using gconf-editor before changing it to see it's default. It was already set to nautilus %s.

Any further ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Narnie